Institute for Critical Social Inquiry - ICSI

Applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by Friday, Feb 20

The extended deadline for applications is today by midnight.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Due to some issues with our web server, we are extending our deadline to January 9.

REMINDER: Applications for the 2026 Summer Seminars are due January 1st.

Applications for the 2026 Summer Seminars are due in 2 weeks.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”

Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

Applications are due in 1 month!

Reminder: we are now accepting applications for the 2026 ICSI Summer Seminars.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”
Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply.

Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

Applications for ICSI 2026 are open!

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”
Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply.

Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2026 Summer Seminars.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”

Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

TODAY: Join us for our final 2025 ICSI Public Lecture with Homi Bhabha, "Race, Time, Terror: On Affective Color, "at 5pm. Registration and valid photo ID are required.

2025 ICSI Public Lectures: Homi Bhabha, "Race, Time, Terror: On Affective Color" The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry will open part of its programming to the public – a series of lectures taught by this Summer's faculty cohort of Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut) , Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) and Homi Bhabha ...

TODAY: Join us for our third 2025 ICSI Public Lecture with Bernard Harcourt, "Life, Death, and Juridical Power," at 5pm. Registration and valid photo ID are required.

2025 ICSI Public Lectures: Bernard Harcourt, "Life, Death, and Juridical Power" The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry will open part of its programming to the public – a series of lectures taught by this Summer's faculty cohort of Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut) , Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) and Homi Bhabha ...